Year 3
Year 3 Curriculum Projects
Year 3 Project - Rocks, Relics and Rumbles
In the Rocks, Relics and Rumbles project, your child will learn about the different layers of the Earth, including plate tectonics and their potential effects on the Earth's surface. They will investigate different types of rock to learn about their uses and properties. They will also investigate soil and fossils, including learning about the work of Mary Anning. They will have the opportunity to use maps to learn about the lines of latitude and longitude and a compass to learn about the cardinal and intercardinal points. They will also learn about volcanoes, earthquakes and tsunamis and the long and short-term consequences that these can have.
Memorable Experience - Let's Rock! with Mrs Martinez
History - Significant people - Mary Anning; Pompeii
Geography - Layers of the Earth; Rocks; Plate tectonics; Ring of Fire; Features of volcanoes; Lines of latitude and longitude; Volcanic eruptions; Earthquakes and tsunamis; compass points; Maps
This project is also supported by mini projects in:
Science: Forces and Magnets
Art and Design: Ammonite
Design and Technology: Making it Move
Computing: derived from D.A.R.E.S
Music: derived from Kapow
PE: derived from TeamThemeKent Resources
PSHE: derived from Jigsaw
RE: derived from Kent SACRE Curriculum
More information about the Year 3 Curriculum can be found in the YEAR 3 Long Term Plan 2024 document found below.
Year 3 Key Information
In Year 3, PE lessons are timetabled for Tuesday (OAA) and Friday (Fitness Circuits)
Ear-rings removed for the day please.
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English
The children have a poetry focus. They will be listening to and reading poems. They will use expression and read with rhythm and emphasis on rhymes. The class will be writing their own versions of poems we study and performing them to the class if they wish.
Spellings
24.3.25
lot
bell
bottle
slept
shelf
awful
skull
smelly
thrill
follow
battle
noodle
crackle
pickle
camel
label
jewel
novel
squirrel
travel
Maths
We have begun our unit on Mass and Capacity. The children have had practical lessons to underpin the reading of scales and the direct comparison of weights and measures. In class they will read scales, add and subtract mass and capacity, compare and order weights and measures.
Please encourage your child to access Times Table Rock Stars at home. Their log in is the same as their Numbots log in. You can find their log-in in their reading record book.
Additional Information
PLEASE ENSURE ALL EAR-RINGS ARE REMOVED ON PE DAYS
Term 4 PE days are Tuesday -OAA (warm clothes needed)
Friday -Fitness circuits
Children need their reading book in school every day.
Spellings week beginning
31.3.25
cat
kit
back
quiet
walk
school
increase
peculiar
accident
sky
skin
crack
track
quarter
mosquito
mannequin
talk
chalk
chorus
chemist
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We encourage the children to:
- Read every day for at least 15 minutes.
- Spend 15 minutes on TTRS or Numbots.
- Access their spellings on Spelling Shed